Homestead Strike

Caitlin O’Brien Pd. 7-8 Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish immigrant to the United States from a poor family where he later changed the steel industry through mass production. He first started employment by working in a factory where he got to experience the labor conditions. As he climbed the ladder of leadership, he was able to learn about the railroad industry and business. While working for the railroad, Carnegie made several investments. Drawn from smart choices and some luck, he was able to focus

seemed undyingly charitable, nothing tars his good-doing reputation more than the Homestead Strike. The 1890s brought to the steel industry an industrial depression; the prices of rolled-steel products declined from $35 a gross ton to $22--a profit decrease of over a third. *Cue Music 1: Mozart, Requium To adjust to the depression, *Pan over picture 2*Henry Clay Frick, the manager at Carnegie’s mill in Homestead, Pennsylvania, was determined to slash wages; the only way to do so was to disband

better known as the “People’s Party” or the Populists. Nationwide strikes in increased during the summer of 1892. One such strike left ten dead and involved the biggest steel tycoon of the time, Andrew Carnegie. A strike, better known as the Homestead Strike, occurred at Andrew Carnegie’s Homestead steel plant near Pittsburgh. Steelworkers over constant pay cuts decided to retaliate, so they stocked up on weapons and began to strike. Three hundred armed Pinkerton Guards were floated on barges down

Industrial Era Between the 1860’s and 1900’s the United States became the significant industrial nation. This was the turning point in American history. There was a major impact on the industrialization after the Civil War. Economic growth and businesses began to boom. The Industrial Era was significant because of who was involved, impacted, and most of all how it happened and why. In 1869, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads met in Promontory, Utah. This transcontinental railroad

Insert Title later Believe it or not, skyscrapers have only been around since the the late 1880’s. The main reason for this was because the materials used to build buildings at the time could not support the weight of a skyscraper. If people wanted to build taller buildings, they had to use stronger materials that could withstand the weight of the building and keep it from collapsing. At the time, that material was steel, but there was a problem; steel was not mass produced at the time. This

Throughout America's great history, the industrial age has been one to reshape the entirety of the country's current state as well as the future. Of many leading men, industrialists they call them, such as John D Rockefeller and Henry Ford, emerged one right from the roots of Pittsburgh by the name of Andrew Carnegie. This man plays a key role in the country’s expansion of infrastructure and steel work making one of the most successful Americans economic wise. He shows the complete story of the American

Andrew Carnegie was a man who believed in the phrase “Survival of the fittest.” He became a shining example of this quote by climbing the ladder from a lowly Irish immigrant to one of the richest men in history. Through aggressive and sometimes unethical means, Carnegie was able to establish firm dominance over the steel industry in the late 19th century and through the early 20th century. The manner in which Carnegie treated his workers, the government, and his competition ensured that he would

Biography of Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie was born into a poor working class family living in the town of Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1835. His father operated a small hand looming business located in the family home. The Carnegies was literate, well read, and active in the politics of the day. It was a time of repression of the Scottish worker by the Government, the employers, and the culture. Rebellious in thought as well as actively participating in protests was part of the Carnegie family

Andrew Carnegie was Scottish immigrant who became one of the most famous businessmen and was a self-made man during the Gilded Age in 1870’s - 1900’s. He grew up poor and worked as a messenger for a local telegraph company until he was noticed by Tom Scott, the president of Pennsylvania Railroad, who later become his mentor and made him the superintendent of his company (Film). With the help of Scott, he later made a fortune in steel company. But, was Andrew Carnegie a hero? Andrew Carnegie was a

captains of industry. The idea that Andrew Carnegie should be guilty of the crime of reckless endangerment is not right. The only reason why Andrew Carnegie is being charged with the crime of reckless endangerment is because of the Homestead Strike. During the strike, twelve workers and nine pinkerton guards would be killed, and many other people injured. However, at the time Andrew Carnegie was in Scotland, attending to family issues. While he may have signed off on